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My Father and Myself

My Father and Myself

Auden, W. H.
Ackerley, J. R.

Paperback

Series: Nyrb Classics S

Biographies GeneralLiterary Figures

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0940322129
ISBN13: 9780940322127
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 30 1999
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.59 Width: 4.94 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
NYRB CLASSICS: An adult son and acclaimed author offers a heartfelt gay memoir about uncovering his late father's secrets.

A cross between Dickens's David Copperfield, Rousseau's Confessions, and the new pornography. --Donald Windham, novelist and memoirist

When his father died, J. R. Ackerley was shocked to discover that he had led a secret life. And after Ackerley himself died, he left a surprise of his own--this coolly considered, unsparingly honest account of his quest to find out the whole truth about the man who had always eluded him in life.

But Ackerley's pursuit of his father is also an exploration of the self--making My Father and Myself a pioneering record, at once sexually explicit and emotionally charged, of life as a gay man. This witty, sorrowful, and beautiful book is a classic of 20th-century memoir.

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